KIMASURF BLOG

Eyeball Report Canggu

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Swell 8.5ft @ 20secs
Wind 5mph
Temperature Sea 29°c    Air 27°c

Best Pics of the Week

Check out what happend last week in Bali at our Kima Surf Camps in Seminyak, Canggu and Balangan!!!

Come to Bali and we will make you happy!!!

Has anyone seen my contact lenses???

Lars is chilling it home!

Another canonball!!!

Bali Traffic

“I’m your private dancer…”

Nice stunt in Balangan!

“Have a nice weekend!!!”

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Eyeball Report Canggu

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Swell 9ft @ 15secs
Wind 4mph
Temperature Sea 29°c    Air 26°c

Eyeball Report Canggu

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Swell 5ft @ 16secs
Wind 7mph
Temperature Sea 29°c Air 27°c

“History of Surfing” part 6

Enjoy our new

“HISTORY of SURFING” BLOG

and learn more about this amazing sport.

Part 6

This week we’ll be looking at multi-faceted artist and waterman

John Severson

the founder of Surfer magazine.

Born in Pasadena, California in 1933 and raised in San Clemente, Severson was a natural artist and always “daydreamed real big.”

In high school he was editor of the school paper, but he went on to major in art in university and began selling his first pieces while finishing his Master’s Degree at Long Beach State College.  In the ’50s, he became the first person to put together a corpus of artwork relating to the California & Hawaiian surf scene, and is regarded by many today as not only the father of surf art genre, but one of the founding fathers of surf culture en masse.  During his stint in the army he found himself stationed in Hawaii and it was there, during the winter of ‘57-’58, filming the army surf team at Makaha and the North Shore that he made his first surf film, the aptly named Surf.

Severson would take his films on tour throughout Southern California school gymnasiums or other community centers where he would narrate the film as it played, cracking jokes and often playing a record for background music.  The slim profits made from each film were always put right back into funding his next film project.  Severson designed his own fliers to promote his films, and it was these fliers, along with stills from his movies, which were the foundation for what would become Surfer magazine.

In 1960, he garage-published “The First Annual Surf Photo Book” titled The Surfer.  It’s popularity and its demand with the public at large as the sport of surfing became ever more popular grew his publication from an annual, to a quarterly, to a bi-monthly, to finally a monthly publication, which it remains today.  After a decade at the helm of the magazine, Severson returned to film in 1970 with Pacific Vibrations, considered a classic of surf film by historians.  The film reflected Severson’s growing sense of what was being lost: “Perhaps what started out to be a very personal statement about surfers and their harmony with the earth will remain just that. But it is more important that surfers wake up before there is no place left for anyone to surf or enjoy the simple beauty of a breaking wave. And most important that we all share those Pacific vibrations.” [Surfer, July 1970]

In 1972, Severson sold the magazine and moved with his family to Maui, where he became an avid windsurfer, refocused on his art and photography, and, naturally, started Wind Surf magazine, and made that the leader in its field.

Severson is an accomplished big wave surfer in his own right, winning the Peru International Surfing Championships and making the finals in the U.S. and Hawaiian Championships in ‘61.

John Severson was voted into the Surfing Hall of Fame in 1993, the Walk of Fame at Huntington Beach in 1995, and given a lifetime achievement award by the Surf Industry Manufacturers’ Association as Waterman of the Year in 1997.

Aloha for now…

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Trey Highton, KIMA SURFARIS, Bali

Eyeball Report Canggu

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Swell 9ft @ 18secs
Wind 3mph
Temperature Sea 28°c    Air 28°c

Eyeball Report Canggu

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Swell 9.5ft @ 14secs
Wind 1mph
Temperature Sea 29°c Air 28°c

Eyeball Report Canggu

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Swell 8ft @ 15secs
Wind 6mph
Temperature Sea 29°c    Air 27°c

Best Pics of the Week

Check out what happend last week in Bali at our Kima Surf Camps in Seminyak, Canggu and Balangan!!!

Sri Lanka localism…

That’s what happens when you drop in…

Chuck Norris would be proud of this Roundhouse Kick!

Ghost rider?

“Maybe I shouldn’t have bought it at Circle K…”

“Frog jump over the lip”

Watch out for airplanes!

“Cannon Ball”

What a spray Kacrut!!!

A lonesome Cowboy watching the beautiful Balinese scenery…

Bali beauty!

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Eyeball Report Canggu

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Swell 6ft @ 13secs
Wind 7mph
Temperature Sea 29°c Air 28°c